CROW (Black Crow), Corvus Corona Corona , [Birdus from Hellus (roadrunner latin)] :-)
From the crow family as are Ravens, Rooks , Magpies and Jackdaws.

Dutch Kraai Chech Harval English Crow French Corneille German Krähe  Estonian Vares Chinese Spanish Coranje Swedish Gal Polish Kruk Greek Sindarin

Notice it's spread "fingers"!

I named my pet after Goete's "Faust",
which tells the tale of Dr.Faust who
sold his soul to the devil Mephisto.

A few words from Faust : "My favorite past time is thrashing computer mice and floppy-disks."
"Also, removing wallpaper is great fun, or hiding the keys from his keyboard."
"It's quite hilarious watching him on his knees looking for them."
"Or freaking-out people visiting my human , man, it's a trip !" "KRRRAAaaaah !!!!"

May 30th 2003 Well, that was that.
Dende's gone, back to nature and freedom on his own decision.
House is empty again. Damn that's hard. :-(
Goodbye little guy.

November 3 rd
New pictures added (magpie)
follow the link below

July 15th '02
Taking care of a baby magpie i got from a colleague

7th January '02
I added the Sindarin script for crow. Sindarin is a language and script(Tengwar) created by J.R.R. Tolkien. You know...writer of "the Lord of the Rings".
It says "craban": kind of crow of large size, raven.
Another word for crow is "Corch"
In the older Elven language, Quenya, it's: quáco "crow" (also corco)

Sunday 29th July 2001 10.00 am
Today Faust left me.
He was gone when I returned from the supermarket. He didn't even touch the frozen meat I left for him.
The back door was always open. He used to look into the garden but never went outside. I called for him but no reaction at all. I thought he hid himself or got stuck behind the fridge, but no, he was gone.
I spent most of the day in the garden waiting for him te return. He didn't. As it became later in the day it started to weigh on me. I will most likely never see him again.
I've always wanted him to return to nature but I wanted to do this more controlled, letting him get used to the environment at a slower pace, let him get used to looking for food and all other things. I'm afraid that he won't find enough food or water. He never slept outside before. He was even picky as for what food he'd eat.
After being together for a little over seven years. It's hard to think what my life was like before his mischief entered my home, Anyway, Faust, I hope you find your way back, if not, have a good life ....

Sunday night 20th August 2001
I dreamt of an orchard full of yellow blossomed trees. And from a distance, in one of the trees, in the morning sun I saw a crow perching on a branch. He looked around a bit and then placed his bill between his wings on his back and slept.

Recorded Sounds
Alas, the sound quality is very poor.

these sound files are in WAV format

Sound 1 Excuse me?? 234 kb
Sound 2 A crow crows 80 kb

Crow Reading

Litterature concerning these birds

Mind of the raven Bernd Heinrich Harper Collins 1999 ISBN: 0060930632
Ravens in Winter Bernd Heinrich Summit Books, 1989
The Magpies T. R. Birkhead T A D POYSER 1991
Ravensong A natural and Fabulous History of Ravens and Crows. Catherine Feher Elston Northland 1994 ISBN: 0-87358-527-5
Crows of the World Derek Goodwin Cornell University Press 1976
Crows and Jays Steve Madge and Hilary Burn Houghton Mifflin 1994 ISBN: 9-780713-639995
The American Crow and the Common Raven Lawrence Kilham Texas A M 1989 ISBN: 0890964661
Crows, Jays, Ravens and their relatives Sylvia Bruce Wilmore Davis and Charles 1977 ISBN: 0839718942
Bird Brains The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays. Candace Savage A Sierra Club Book 1995 ISBN: 1-55054-189-7
Andy, Twenty-four years of Fowl Play with a Talking Crow. Reveren Whitney J. Dough Providence House Publishers.

Some Other Links Concerning This Creature

save the crows
emergency link link for raising/helping pet/found corvids
Rooks, the less popular ones
White crow: Bird
rec.pets.birds -- general area for pet bird discussions
rec.birds -- bird watching & feeding
alt.pets.birds.softbills-- softbill birds as pets general area.
alt.pets.birds.softbills.crows-- crows, ravens, magpies, jays, rooks, jackdaws.

Crow pictures

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